Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court reversed.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

But a Middle District of Pennsylvania court recently established one key limit on states’ authority to block new transmission lines through the siting process. PJM Interconnection is one such RTO, which oversees a region encompassing thirteen states, including Pennsylvania, along with the District of Columbia. Defrank The U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that the answer to this question was no. LLC (Raiders) is a company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. courts over disputes that arise in other countries.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday added two new cases to the merits docket for the 2022-23 term. A state trial court turned him down, prompting Reed to file a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas law governing post-conviction DNA testing. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Department of Justice has broad, but not unfettered, authority to dismiss whistleblower lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act’s qui tam provision even when the government initially elected to allow the whistleblower to proceed with the action.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the readers who decided to continue past my opening paragraph, Great Lakes Insurance falls within the admiralty power of the federal courts, which authorizes the federal judiciary to articulate a federal common law for maritime contracts. So exactly why would that question ever matter?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Here, for example, a foreign insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. The question in the case is whether a coverage dispute should be resolved under New York law (which would accept the insurer’s denial of coverage) or Pennsylvania law (which probably would not). Fireman’s Insurance Co. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. Zapata Off-Shore Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S. New Jersey.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court on Monday granted review in four consolidated cases that involve the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that uncashed MoneyGram checks are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Check Act (FDA) and should be returned to the state where they were issued. In Delaware v. It was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first opinion.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Supreme Court heard its first oral arguments of the 2022-2023 Term. The Court also welcomed new Justice Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the bench for her first session of oral arguments. The Court also welcomed new Justice Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the bench for her first session of oral arguments.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I previously wrote about the most cited Supreme Court patent cases since 1952. The USPTO interference sided with the first-filer Kepner and so Sanford took the case to Federal Court. The USPTO interference sided with the first-filer Kepner and so Sanford took the case to Federal Court. Kepner , 344 U.S. Kepner , 99 F.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , will be the second case argued on Monday, the opening day of the 2022-23 term. On one side is Delaware.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 16, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, another case involving state abortion restrictions, as well as a constitutional challenge to limits placed on the repayment of “personal loans” made by political candidates to their own election campaigns. Wade , should be overruled.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Keeping elderly offenders in prison until their deaths is expensive, too: the report found that Pennsylvania pays at least $122 million per year in care for people over 50 serving life without parole in the state’s prisons. At 9,802, the state imprisons more than twice the people serving LWP than the second-highest population in Pennsylvania.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

At the Supreme Court’s Wednesday conference — a double one, and with only six justices participating because of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar’s retirement at the end of October — actions of note included: Bail denial. ” The Court of Appeal had summarily denied the defendant’s habeas corpus petition.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. He proceeded to incriminate himself in what the Court said was a bait-and-switch. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court has granted review in eight cases, six of them relisted, on four different order lists. Of course, the court also denied cert for a couple relists. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, held below).

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share With two dozen cases from its 2021-22 term still undecided, the Supreme Court on Tuesday released the first argument calendar for its 2022-23 term. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit used the correct test to determine whether wetlands are “waters of the United States” for purposes of the Clean Water Act. Pennsylvania (Oct.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

Actions of note at yesterday’s Supreme Court conference included: Supreme Court OK’s commutation of three-strikes sentence. The court granted review in Pulliam v. The appellate court concluded the Rule doesn’t limit attorney fees, disagreeing with Lafferty v. The court denied depublication.]. Jenkins (Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit handed down a major ruling in favor of the Second Amendment rights of ex-felons. While it is always risky to bet on granting of review before the Supreme Court, this en banc decision is well positioned for a Supreme Court showdown over the Second Amendment.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will hold its last conference of 2021. The Supreme Court called for the views of the solicitor general, who believes the court should take the case. Luxshare, Ltd.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will thus begin the process of considering what cases to review next fall during October Term 2022. The district court and U.S. What’s the difference ?

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HowAppealing

JULY 21, 2021

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court reverses decision allowing childhood sex abuse victims to sue for decades old abuse”: Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report. ” Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press reports that “ Justices deal blow to outdated claims of child sexual abuse.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 2, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard argument in PennEast Pipeline Co. The case presents two questions : (1) whether sovereign immunity prevents PennEast from instituting eminent domain proceedings in federal court to condemn properties in which New Jersey has interests, and (2) whether the U.S. New Jersey.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

Share The Supreme Court held 5-4 in PennEast Pipeline Co. New Jersey that sovereign immunity does not shield New Jersey from condemnation proceedings instituted by a private company in federal court to obtain properties for a pipeline. The court rejected the sovereign immunity defense. New Jersey appealed, and the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered there and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit occurred somewhere else. of Philadelphia v.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Jean-Marc Thouvenin , Secretary-General of the Academy, this year’s inaugural lecture was given by Dominique Hascher, judge at the Supreme Judicial Court of France. Tiong Min Yeo , from the Singapore Management University, held a Special Course titled ‘Common Law, Equity, and Statute: Effect of Juridical Sources on Choice of Law Methodology’.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Broadcasters already upload this information to their public file, and this update merely brings the FCC’s rules in line with the requirements of federal statute and thus has no practical effect on a station’s political file obligations. By that date, radio stations in Delaware and Pennsylvania must file a license renewal application.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 19, 2021

Extraterritoriality in Statutes and Regulations. Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Domestic Courts, Global Challenges. Dodge , John D. Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law. Judicial Extraterritoriality.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2023

The report follows a five-year investigation, which occurred following the large-scale revelations of child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania in 2018. And because the statute of limitations has frequently expired, many survivors of child sex abuse at the hands of Catholic clerics will never see justice in a legal sense.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court will observe St. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit affirmed. And then the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. And then the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v.

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